Academic Year/course:
2019/20
270 - Degree in Psychology
25921 - Psychology of thought and Language
Información del Plan Docente
Academic Year:
2019/20
Subject:
25921 - Psychology of thought and Language
Faculty / School:
301 - Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas
Degree:
270 - Degree in Psychology
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
3
Semester:
First Four-month period
Subject Type:
Compulsory
Module:
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3. Assessment (1st and 2nd call)
4. Methodology, learning tasks, syllabus and resources
4.1. Methodological overview
The methodology followed in this course is oriented towards achievement of the learning objectives. It is based on an active methodology that favors the development of critical thinking. A wide range of teaching and learning tasks are implemented, such as lectures, practice sessions, autonomous work and assessment tasks.
Students are expected to participate actively in the class throughout the semester.
Further information regarding the course will be provided on the first day of class.
4.2. Learning tasks
The course includes 6 ECTS organized according to:
- Lectures (3 ECTS): 30 hours.
- Practice sessions (2 ECTS): 20 hours.
- Autonomous work (- ECTS): 90 hours.
- Assessment tasks (1 ECTS): 10 hours.
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Practice sessions: students are expected to use ICTs for their assignments, and create documents individually and collaboratively.
Assessment: self-assessment and peer-assessment activities are promoted.
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4.3. Syllabus
PART I. General Issues
Chapter 1. Introduction: themes of pshycholinguistics
Chapter 2. Linguistic principles
Chapter 3. Psychological mechanisms
PART II: Language Comprehension
Chapter 4. Perception of language
Chapter 5. The internal lexicon
Chapter 6. Sentence comprehension and memory
Chapter 7. Discourse comprehension and memory
PART III. Language production and conversational interaction
Chapter 8. Production of speech and language
Chapter 9. Conversational interaction
PART IV. Language Acquisition
Chapter 10. Processes of language acquisition
PART V. Language in perspective
Chapter 11. Biological foundations of language
Chaper 12. Language, culture and cognition
4.4. Course planning and calendar
Further information concerning the timetable, classroom, office hours, assessment dates and other details regarding this course will be provided on the first day of class or please refer to the "Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas" website and Moodle (http://fcsh.unizar.es/psicologia/, https://moodle2.unizar.es ).